[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 153 (Thursday, September 22, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5028-S5029]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 5639. Mr. WARNOCK (for himself, Mr. Boozman, Mr. Ossoff, Mr. 
Blumenthal, and Mr. Bennet) submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and 
Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle A of title VI, add the following:

     SEC. 606. REPORT ON BASIC ALLOWANCE FOR HOUSING FOR MEMBERS 
                   OF THE UNIFORMED SERVICES.

       (a) In General.--Not later than one year after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall 
     submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and 
     the House of Representatives a report on the basic allowance 
     for housing for members of the uniformed services.
       (b) Elements.--The report required by subsection (a) shall 
     contain the following elements:
       (1) The evaluation of the Secretary--
       (A) of the efficiency and accuracy of the current system 
     used to calculate the basic allowance for housing for members 
     of the uniformed services under section 403 of title 37, 
     United States Code;

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       (B) of the appropriateness of using mean and median housing 
     costs in such calculation;
       (C) of existing military housing areas, in relation to 
     choices in, and availability of, housing for members of the 
     uniformed services; and
       (D) of the suitability of the six standard housing profiles 
     in relation to the average family sizes of members of the 
     uniformed services, disaggregated by uniformed service, rank, 
     and military housing area.
       (2) The recommendation of the Secretary--
       (A) regarding the feasibility of including information, 
     furnished by Federal entities, regarding school districts, in 
     calculating the basic allowance for housing;
       (B) whether to calculate the basic allowance for housing 
     more frequently, including in response to a sudden change in 
     the housing market;
       (C) whether to enter into an agreement with a commercial 
     entity, to compile data and develop an algorithm, in order to 
     calculate the basic allowance for housing; and
       (D) whether to publish the methods used by the Secretary to 
     calculate the basic allowance for housing on a publicly 
     accessible website of the Department of Defense.
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